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#capability-approach
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Capabilities or the social model: which better tells a city what it owes disabled residents?
I'm a final-year law student in Delhi. In a moot this term we had to argue about what a municipal corporation owes disabled residents under India's disability-rights legislation. I found myself reaching for two frameworks that don't fit together as neatly as…
Started by Deepa Nair0 replies93 views -
Two people with the same income and different lives: a wheelchair user’s case for capabilities
I have used a wheelchair since I was fourteen, and I advise NGOs on accessible buildings. I want to make a case from my own life for why Amartya Sen's question, "equality of what?", is the right one. Imagine two people in…
Started by Dima Nasser4 replies162 views